OSHA Inspection: WILLIAMS PATENT CRUSHER & PULVERIZER COMPANY

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1785.00 · Current $1250.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1):     Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.    1. Throughout the plant, at the time of the inspection, the employer was operating several multiple energy source (electric and pneumatic) machines without a machine specific energy control (lockout/tagout) program in place.

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1517.00 · Current $1062.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.179(b)(2):     New and existing equipment. All new overhead and gantry cranes constructed and installed on or after August 31, 1971, shall meet the design specifications of the American National Standard Safety Code for Overhead and Gantry Cranes, ANSI B30.2.0-1967, which is incorporated by reference as specified in Sec. 1910.6.    1. At the time of the inspection, in the main building, employees were operating six (6) cranes with no safety tags above the pendant control boxes. Employees were exposed to struck by hazards.

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1517.00 · Current $1062.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1):     One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks:    1. On the south end of the main plant, employees were using a large Clausing drill press with no chuck (arbor) guard in place. Employees were exposed to caught in, struck by and amputation hazards.    2. In the shipping and receiving building, employees were using a small Clausing drill press with no chuck (arbor) guard in place. Employees were exposed to caught in, struck by and amputation hazards.

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1517.00 · Current $1062.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1):     Sufficient access and working space was not provided and maintained about all electric equipment (operating at 600 volts, nominal, or less to ground) to permit ready and safe operation and maintenance of such equipment:    1. In the main building, there was a large paint shaker blocking access to a 240 volt panel box (PP6). The paint shaker mechanically shakes (stirs) five (5) gallon buckets of paint.

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1517.00 · Current $1062.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(j)(1)(i):     Fixtures, lampholders, lamps, rosettes, and receptacles may have no live parts normally exposed to employee contact. However, rosettes and cleat-type lampholders and receptacles located at least 2.44 m (8.0 ft) above the floor may have exposed terminals.    1. In the main building, in the high bay area, there was a broken receptacle on the combination duplex outlet and light switch.

Issued

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(b)(1)(i):     Conductors entering cutout boxes, cabinets, or fittings shall be protected from abrasion, and openings through which conductors enter shall be effectively closed.    1. In the main building, on the south end near the side door, there was a knockout missing from the top of a duplex outlet.